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Friday November 29, 2024. 12:36 PM
After a period of intense public and political debate, Australia has approved laws that will ban anyone under the age of 16 from using social media. While the laws were passed yesterday, it may well be a year until they come into effect -- and they will be the strictest in...
Jurassic Park may have the tourists, but Triassic Toilet serves up the science. The inner lives of dinosaurs are revealed in Digestive contents and food webs record the advent of dinosaur supremacy, a study by Martin Qvarnström and others published in the journal Nature. —...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! A discarded cigarette: what a perfectly French way to destroy centuries of French history. But Notre Dame was restored at staggering expense—the BBC reports €700m (about $750m) was spent—after the...
Candace Owens, an online influencer who graduated from standard right wingery to holocaust denial with some Hitler praise along the way, was denied entry to New Zealand. Officials cited her ban from Australia, what was due to her extremist positions—specifically 'remarks...
The effort to re-shore chip manufacturing in the US could be in peril as a new presidential administration has signaled a shift in direction, all while a semiconductor industry seems at times to be struggling. President-elect Donald J. Trump has indicated the CHIPS and...
If you’ve read this column for long, you probably know that when it comes to tech purchases — and tech decisions in general, really — I’m typically not one to be hasty. It’s practically in my blood at this point. I’ve spent so many years studying, researching,...
The Competition Bureau of Canada has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google, accusing the tech giant of abusing its dominant position in the online advertising technology market to stifle competition and harm advertisers, publishers, and consumers. The case, filed with...
For GenAI to live up to its promise reliable flow of data is key. AI models are only as good as the data pipeline connections bringing in quality data. Outdated connections mean more hallucinations and untrustworthy results with data engineers hopelessly trying to manually...
Linux-based operating systems have long been heralded as being inherently more secure than Windows. Whether or not this is true is open to debate, as is the impact of user numbers on making an OS a target for malware writers. A key security concern in recent times has been...
Is it just me, or are we seeing more cloud project failures today than 10 years ago? Logic suggests we improve over time, but the metrics don’t support that assumption. A cloud project 10 years ago typically involved migrating a few test programs and systems. Now, the...
This (half-) month in Python and elsewhere: Get your feet wet with Pi-thon, er, Python 3.14, in its alpha 2 release! See how standalone Python app executables work with PyInstaller. Use Python’s pattern matching to unlock type-based decision-making superpowers. And...
A cutting-edge artificial intelligence model developed by Stanford University researchers is set to transform genetic research by decoding and designing DNA sequences with remarkable precision. Evo works like a large language model (LLM), but instead of analyzing words, it...
Recently, Microsoft executives submitted a new proposal to the Internet Engineering Task Force to protect web data by creating additional rules to distinguish AI training bots from other bots, letting website owners block bots unwanted AI web crawlers. Because AI models...
TL;DR: The first 100 customers can save 90% on Windows 11 Pro during this Black Friday sale — head directly to checkout. Everyone's talking about how AI is the future, but there's something they're not telling you. Instead of opening ChatGPT whenever you want to generate...
Thursday November 28, 2024. 11:32 PM
The Cinnamon Desktop, the GTK desktop environment developed by the Linux Mint project, has just released version 6.4. The focus of this release is on nips and tucks in the default theme, dialogs, menus, and other user interface elements. They seem to have taken a few pages...
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Earlier today, one of our subscribers, anselm, posted the one millionth item in our database during a discussion in the comments about the GPL. One million articles and comments is a big milestone — one representing twenty two years of work by both the editors of LWN and...
Mozilla has updated its packaging format for Firefox on Linux, moving from.tar.bz2 to.tar.xz. The switch, which uses the LZMA compression algorithm, results in smaller download sizes -- up to 25 percent smaller -- and faster decompression times, improving installation...
The U.S. healthcare system is ruthless and profit-seeking by design. That it's also infested with frauds and crooks is an example of why the freedom in free markets rarely extends to customers. Federal agents detained hospital chain CEO Ralph de la Torre last week, reports...
OpenAI is reportedly experiencing issues with its next artificial intelligence model, Orion. Model evaluations have found only moderate improvements over previous versions, sparking concerns about the rate of advancement we can expect in future generative AI models. OpenAI...
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